Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Founding Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is playing a different
tune these days – a hard-driving jazz-rock tune alongside an all-star
cast of Jack Bruce, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman-Santana.
Together now as Spectrum Road, the quartet has taken the idea of paying
tribute to Tony Williams Lifetime to its zenith on their forthcoming
self-titled debut.

Rather than following the grounding-breaking fusion template set
forth by Williams, who passed away in 1997, Spectrum Road is instead
using his music as an inspirational framework. The results, due June 5,
2012, through Palmetto Records, are inventive, triumphal, thunderous – a
combination of the sounds associated with Jack Bruce’s Cream, Living
Colour, Medeski Martin and Wood and Blackman-Santana’s memorable stint
with Lenny Kravitz, but at the same time nothing like them at all...

...The guitarist also gives an update regarding Living Colour. "Living Colour just got together a few weeks ago – preparing
to do a bunch of writing in preparation to make a record for 2013," he
says. "We want to be out and touring in 2013."